LAPEL — The program has only been around for three seasons, but the Lapel girls soccer team is already making history.

On Saturday at Tipton High School, the Bulldogs put their name in the record books and secured the first soccer sectional title in school history with a 7-0 win over Tri-Central.

The win capped off a three-game sectional run and pushed the Lapel record on the season to 17-1-1. The team hasn’t lost a game since Sept. 9 and has reeled off 12 straight wins.

Led by two of the top goal scorers in the state, the Bulldogs jumped out to a 4-0 lead by halftime of the championship game.

Junior Sophie Goodwin scored the first two goals of the game, converting a penalty kick 13 minutes into the game and then scoring later in the half off an assist from Addyson Alsup.

To make it 3-0, sophomore Leila Wilson scored her first goal and shortly after, Goodwin completed the hat trick for the 4-0 lead.

Goals from the two early in the second half made things 6-0 and Lilyana Horning closed the scoring with her lone goal of the game.

Goodwin’s four goals pushed her season total to 33, while Wilson’s two goals moved her to 49 on the season. Each has also added 15 assists.

Wilson is third in the state in goals scored and seventh in the nation. Goodwin is tied for 13th in Indiana.

Lapel opened up the sectional tournament with a 6-0 win over Elwood.

Goodwin scored a hat trick, Wilson added two goals and freshman Dylan Wedekind scored once.

In the semifinals, the Bulldogs were given a scare by a team they beat 8-2 in the regular season – Tipton.

Down 3-1 at halftime, and down 5-2 late in the second half, Lapel stormed back to force overtime and eventually won on sudden death penalty kicks.

After the first five rounds of PKs, the Bulldogs and Blue Devils had each converted three. In the sixth round, Horning scored and Tipton missed to give the Bulldogs the win.

Lapel goalkeeper Gracie Milligan saved three shots in the penalty rounds.

The Blue Devils found the back of the net first to open the game, but a Goodwin goal tied things at 1-1.

In the final 10 minutes of the half, Tipton added two more goals for the halftime lead. Kendal Claus scored the first and Kendall Coe tacked on the second.

Wilson scored early in the second half to bring the Bulldogs back within one, but the next two goals went to the Blue Devils.

Mylee Granson buried a shot from a long way out for the 4-2 lead and Coe scored her second goal of the night to go up 5-2 with 22 minutes remaining.

Shortly after the Coe goal, the Bulldogs began their charge back.

Alsup scored at the 20-minute mark for the first of three late Lapel goals, Wedekind knocked home a goal off a corner kick from Wilson with 14 minutes remaining and with 10 minutes on the clock, Goodwin tied things at 5-5 off an assist from Paige Stires.

Lapel played Greencastle on Wednesday after press time in the regional semifinal.